Odds and Ends — 29 January 2026

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8 days ago

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Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:

Gold in 'extreme greed' sentiment as it adds entire bitcoin market cap in one day

https://twitter.com/NotHoodlum/status/2016620480224973075

SEC Says Tokenized Assets Are Securities First, Technology Second

Coronavirus and Public Health:

COVID-19 viral fragments shown to target and kill specific immune cells in UCLA-led study

Politics:

https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/2016519012755062840

Fuck Around and Find Out

Nine progressive prosecutors from cities around the country are launching a coalition to assist in prosecuting federal law enforcement officers who violate state law.
The organization, which is called the Project for the Fight Against Federal Overreach… Its acronym, F.A.F.O., references a slang term for negative consequences…

https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/2016579782121599020

———— Minnesota Under Siege ————

“This is moral injury that we’re living through. They still have an active federal investigation into the wife of Renee Good. And that is demented shit right there.” — Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, in an interview with The Bulwark.

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/2016510320366256305

https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/2016598770230714447

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/2016504011856208023

https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/2016673650867384720

Pam Bondi Presses Minnesota for Voter Data

For months, President Donald Trump’s administration has been trying to force Minnesota’s Democratic leaders to turn over detailed information about the state’s voters, including driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers.
State officials have said no. Now, Attorney General Pam Bondi is repeating those demands in a letter that also references the federal government’s aggressive deployment of immigration agents to the streets of Minneapolis.

https://twitter.com/mynamehear/status/2016362327633703287
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/2016511614778851528
https://twitter.com/kylietcheung/status/2016337417842643290
https://twitter.com/BrentTerhune/status/2016624356139438500

How Trump Realized He Had a Big Problem in Minneapolis

Mr. Trump has honed a survival tactic over many years facing criticism in the public eye: He creates diversions to barrel from one news cycle into the next. But in other moments, when he has faced particularly intense — and politically damaging — public outcry, he has taken stock of news coverage and decided to take a different tack, often temporarily.

https://twitter.com/LePapillonBlu2/status/2016319631380603153

https://twitter.com/vincempls/status/2016625131250930021

https://twitter.com/vincempls/status/2016625929154330858

ICE officers in Minnesota directed not to interact with 'agitators' in new orders

https://twitter.com/jkimballcook/status/2016219192379269131

https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/2016595031646200298

https://twitter.com/lawrencehurley/status/2016649437234217316

https://twitter.com/nxthompson/status/2016591428139221171

———— Autocracy R Us ————

https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/2016393305991389354

Search warrant FBI served at elections office near Atlanta seeks records tied to the 2020 elections

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2016567990427197599

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/2016687705464127934

https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/2016681563203797004

https://twitter.com/DougBockClark/status/2016647723500331052

https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/2016720714573684817

What Should Americans Do Now?

A lawless regime is an illegitimate one. If the country seems to have reached a breaking point in Minneapolis, this is why. And yet Minneapolis also offers a compelling answer to the question that democracy-loving Americans have asked for the past year: What can I do?

https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/2016637387112165822

https://twitter.com/_Eric_Reinhart/status/2016653905682223283

https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/2016635107067486561

Minneapolis Reveals Where Trump’s Deportation Agenda Is Going

https://twitter.com/DC_DeWitt/status/2016538395745403094

https://twitter.com/Joseph_Fasano_/status/2016581191793582176